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Stem two to three feet high, slender, slightly flexuous, glabrous. Leaves 
ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, acutely serrate, glabrous, reticulately veined, 
acute at base. Racemes scattered along the stem, small, axillary, erect. 
Scales of the involucrum linear, rather obtuse. Florets of the ray about 
five; of the disk seven to eight. Seeds hairy. 
Under this name I received a specimen from Dr. Muhlenberg which evi- 
dently belongs to the S. Axillaris of Pursh. It is distinguished by leaves 
narrow-lanceolate, remotely serrulate, acute or very slightly acuminate, and 
by compact, somewhat globular racemes clustered along the stem. It ap- 
pears to me a very distinct species and was so considered by Dr. Muhlen- 
berg, who arranged our common S. Flexicaulis as the S. Latifolia. I have 
been induced to add this note because the S. Axillaris has been omitted by 
Mr. Nuttall in his enumeration of our species; and Dr. Schweinitz remarks, 
“what I call by this name is very doubtful; it may belong to S. Flexicaulis, 
but differs in habit.” 
Grows in the upper districts of Carolina and Georgia — not common in 
the low country. 
Flowers September — October. 
34. Glomerata. 
S. caule humili, sim- 
plicissimo; foiiis gla- 
bris, oblongo-Ianceola- 
tis, serratis; racemo 
siraplici, glomerulis 
axillaribus; superiori- 
bus capitato-congestis; 
involucris turgidis, 
multifloris. 
Mich. 2. p. 117. Pursh, 2. p. 542. 
Lower leaves broad, oval, acuminate, serrate, nearly allied to Aster. 
Nuttall. Distinguished among the rest by its deep and close serratures, and 
the capitate form of the axillary racemes. Schweinitz. 
This species I have not seen. 
Grows in the mountains of Carolina. Michaux, Near Salem, North-Caro- 
lina. Schweinitz. 
Flowers — 
Stem humble, sim- 
pie; leaves glabrous, 
oblong-lanceolate, ser- 
rate; raceme simple, 
composed of axillary 
heads, the upper ones 
clustered; involucrum 
turgid, many-flowered. 
